The Legal Minefield of Office Group Chat

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The informal nature and speed of tools such as Hipchat, Slack, and Microsoft Teams are doing a lot to make teams more productive and collaborative.

However, it also makes gossiping and joking easy. This can make it easier to put down things in writing that you’d never want read out loud (in a courtroom, for example).

Are you using Receipt Bank or considering implementing a client document workflow tool in your firm? Check out this set of interviews by Heather Smith with accountants and bookkeepers around the globe on how best to configure your Receipt Bank system settings.

Zoom customers now have the option to install the Zoom Rooms Scheduling Display on an iPad and place it outside the room to show current availability, display upcoming meetings, and allow people to easily reserve time for an instant Zoom meeting.

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